Application for operators' licences
7.—(1) An application for an operator’s licence shall be made to the Department.
(2) A person may not at any time hold more than one operator’s licence.
(3) An application for an operator’s licence shall be made in such form, and include such declarations and information, as may be prescribed.
(4) Without prejudice to subsection (3), regulations under that subsection shall require the applicant to provide prescribed particulars as to—
(a)the motor vehicles proposed to be used under the licence;
(b)any trailers proposed to be used under the licence;
(c)each place which will be an operating centre of the applicant if the licence is issued.
(5) The Department may require an applicant to furnish, in such form as the Department may require, such further information as the Department may consider necessary for dealing with the application.
(6) If a person fails without reasonable excuse to furnish information when required to do so under subsection (5), the Department may decline to proceed further with the application and refuse to grant the licence.